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People use umbrellas when it rains. However, the umbrella was not invented to keep off water when it rained. It was first used to keep off the sun. Nobody knows who first invented it, but it was used long, long ago. At that time, in some places ordinary people were not allowed to use the umbrella. In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella to keep off the Sun. But the Romans were the first to use it to keep off the Middle Ages, people stopped using the umbrella. Then it appeared again in Italy in the late sixteenth century. By 1680 the umbrella appeared in France and later on in England. By the eighteenth century, the umbrella was used to keep off rian all over Europe. Umbrellas have not changed much in shape during all this time though they have bee much lighter in weight. In the twentieth century, women’s umbrellas began to be made in all kinds of colours. ( )1. It is a long time since the umbrellas to prevent themselves from rain. ( )2. People invented umbrellas to prevent themselves from rain. ( )3. The Italians used umbrellas before 1600. ( )4. The umbrellas appeared in France in the late seventeenth century. ( )5. Women’s umbrellas changed less than men’s. ( )6. Today’s umbrellas are generally lighter thyan those hundreds of years ago. (B)[來 Popular music in America is what every student likes. Students carry small radios with earphones and listen to music before class and at lunch. Students with cars buy large speakers and play the music loudly as they drive on the street. Adult drivers listen to music on the car radio as they drive to work. They also listen to the news about sports, the weather, and life of American people. Most of the radio programmes are music. Pop or popular music singers make much money. They make a CD or tape which radio stations use in many places. Once the popular singer is heard all over the country, young people buy his or her tape. Some of the money from these tapes es to the singer. Wherever the singer goes, all the younger people wants to meet him or her. Now the singer has bee a national star] Ther